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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Synecdoche
Sestina
Scenes
2. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Rising Action
Conflict
Verbal Irony
Reversal
3. A four line stanza in a poem.
Stanza
Personification
Alliteration
Quatrain
4. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Iamb
Rhythm
Nonfiction
Rhyme
5. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Rising Action
Reversal
Paradox
Closed Form
6. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Syntax
Irony
Conflict
Foot
7. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Cliche
Suspense
Stanza
Solioquy
8. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Aside
Dramatic Irony
Irony
Voice
9. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Conceit
Structure
Image
Parody
10. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Analogy
Epiphany
Theme
Style
11. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Free Verse
Ballad
Character
Dactyl
12. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Motif
Quatrain
Foreshadowing
Voice
13. The main character of a literary work.
Falling Meter
Closed Form
Protagonist
Folklore
14. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Tone
Enjambment
Aside
Irony
15. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Lyric Poem
Spondee
Comic Relief
Epiphany
16. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Act
Persona
Oxymoron
Foil
17. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Character
Audience
Rising Action
Meter
18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Stereotype
Synecdoche
Parable
Subplot
19. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Ballad
Internal Conflict
Sestina
20. The time and place of a story or play.
Figurative Language
Epigram
Metonymy
Setting
21. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Act
Symbol
Narrative Poem
Falling Action
22. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Subplot
Sonnet
Figurative Language
Villanelle
23. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Mood
Aside
Literal Language
Couplet
24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Metonymy
Diction
Theme
Complication
25. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Character
Aside
1st Person
Allegory
26. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Convention
Motif
Alliteration
Suspense
27. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Verbal Irony
Structure
Stanza
Denouement
28. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Alliteration
Style
Blank Verse
Onomatopoeia
29. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Elegy
Assonance
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Legend
30. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Structure
Lyric Poem
Epiphany
Character
31. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Aphorism
Dactyl
Foil
Foreshadowing
32. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Synecdoche
Elegy
Alliteration
Pyrrhic
33. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Act
Exposition
Motif
Allegory
34. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Symbolism
1st Person
Understatement
35. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Parallelism
Verbal Irony
Antagonist
Trochee
36. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Imagery
Verbal Irony
Catharsis
Foil
37. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Stanza
Characterization
Setting
Structure
38. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Imagery
Conflict
Simile
Mood
39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Spondee
Persona
Recognition
Folklore
40. A poem that tells a story.
Symbol
Falling Meter
Narrative Poem
Theme
41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Enjambment
Blank Verse
Pyrrhic
Metonymy
42. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Foot
Suspense
Villanelle
3rd Person (Limited)
43. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Villanelle
Hyperbole
Antagonist
44. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Symbolism
Suspense
Nonfiction
Scenes
45. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Stereotype
Rhythm
Epic
Act
46. Broken down acts.
Closed Form
Foil
Scenes
Quatrain
47. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Octave
Anapest
Trochee
3rd Person (Limited)
48. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Foreshadowing
Paradox
Rhyme
Falling Action
49. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Complication
Recognition
Characterization
Apostrophe
50. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Myth
Iamb
Subplot
Synecdoche
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